Electrical connector.



PATENTED DEO. 27, 1904.

H. KRANTZ 6; 13` W, MLLER.

ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR.

MlLoATIoN FILED MAB-15, 1904` WITNESSES im@ @Mi INVENTORS zum. 75m/@5'BYa ULyLmU-@M im@ 5x/umm ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES Patented December 27,1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

HUBERT 4KRANTZ AND ERNEST WV. MLLER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNORS TOH. KRANTZ MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK, A CORPORATIONOE NEY YORK.

ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 778,681, dated December2*?, 1904.

' Application ned March 15, 1904. serai No. 198,317.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, HUBERT KRANTZ and ERNEST IV. MLLER, citizens of theUnited States of America, rcsidingin the borough of 5 Brooklyn, in, thecounty of Kings, State of New York, have invented Improvements inElectrical Connectors, of which the following' is a specification.

Our invention relates to interconnection- IO strips for connecting' up aseries of electrical conductors; and the object of the invention is toso improve the construction of such devices that they will be moreconvenient in use, neater in appearance, and less liable to 15. givetrouble than similar devices as now constructed.

In the accompanyingdrawings, Figure l is a face view of a stripconstructed according to our invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view 2O onthe line 2 2, Fig. l.

rl`he strip S of insulating material is drilled with two rows ofopenings w y, and between the right-hand and left-handrows of openingsbinding-posts C C/ are secured to the strip,

these binding-posts being staggered relatively to each other-c'. c., thepost C between one pair of openings (opposite each other in the tworows) being' to the left, the neXt post, C, to the right, and so on.

Each binding-post C C is provided with a number-plate p, which, inaddition to its designated number, is provided with two holes the properdistance apart to allow one to be slipped over the post and the other tooccupy a position over the corresponding hole in the insulating-strip.

Pairs ot' incoming wires 1 2, 3 4l, Sac., enter through theircorrespondingky7 numbered plates p p and are secured to thecorresponding binding-posts C C between nuts n n'. 40 Wires w w' to thepoint for distribution pass through the openings on the opposite side ofthe strip unprovidcd with the number-plate, and they are fastened to thebinding-posts between the nuts n' and n2. 45

IVe claim as our inventione An interconnection-strip for electricalconductors, comprising' an insulated strip, a line of binding-poststhereon, a number-plate connected to each binding-post, the plate andstrip having openings through them, a wire passing` from the back of thestrip through said strip and plate and connected to the bindingpost, andan outgoing wire also connected to the binding-post, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specilication inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HUBERT KRANTZ. ERNEST WV. MULLER.

IVitnesses:

VALTER ABBE, HUBERT HowsoN.

